Mahfooz A. Ansari, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the AACSB-accredited Dhillon School of Business, University of Lethbridge (Canada). He chaired the International Management Area from 2015 to 2018 and the HRM & Organizational Studies Area from 2009 to 2013. He was named a University of Lethbridge “University Scholar” for 2009-2011, becoming the first recipient from the Dhillon School of Business since 1967. Before joining the University of Lethbridge, he held faculty appointments at several institutions, including Universiti Sains Malaysia, UIA International Islamic University Malaysia, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, University of Magadh, and A.N.S. Institute of Social Studies, Patna. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at numerous universities worldwide, including the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), King Abdulaziz University Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), International Islamic University Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam (Malaysia), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, North-Eastern Regional Institute of Management Guwahati (India), University of Calicut (India), and Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Karaman (Turkey).

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Dr. Ansari is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Fulbright-Hays Award (1978), the Excellent Service Recognition Award from Universiti Sains Malaysia (2004), and the Long Service Recognition Award from the University of Lethbridge (2017). He has received multiple distinctions from the Academy of Management, including the Carolyn Dexter Best Paper Award (2004), the Best Paper from an Under-represented Country Award (2004), Carolyn Dexter Best Paper Award Finalist (2005), Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award Finalist (2006), and the selection of two of his papers among the Best International Papers (2007, 2011). In addition, he received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2011).

 

Dr. Ansari is a member of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, the Asia Academy of Management, and the International Leadership Association, and is listed in the Harvard International Directory of Business and Management Scholars.

 

Dr. Ansari has more than 45 years of experience in teaching, consultancy, and research in leadership, organizational behavior, human resource management, and cross-cultural management. His interdisciplinary research program centers on leadership and encompasses three interrelated streams: (a) the power–influence approach to leadership, (b) leader–member exchange (LMX), and (c) the cultural context of leadership and social influence. He is the author of two books—Managing People at Work (Sage, 1990) and Managing Dyadic Interactions in Organizational Leadership (Sage, 2000). Dr. Ansari has collaborated with scholars in more than 40 countries, published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, and delivered more than 80 invited presentations as well as over 150 conference presentations across the United States, Canada, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Macau, Taiwan, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, and Pakistan--See details at https://profmahfoozansari.wixsite.com/biography..

 

Dr. Ansari’s work has appeared in many of the field’s leading journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, Business Horizons, Human Relations, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Journal of Social Psychology. He serves or has served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of World Business, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Cross-Cultural & Strategic Management, FWU Journal of Social Sciences, and Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research. According to Google Scholar, his work has been quite visible and widely cited over 3,950 times (over 1,000 since 2021), his h-index is 30 (19 since 2021), and his i10-index (i.e., number of publications with at least 10 citations each) is 57 (27 since 2021)--see  http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=nC8RTpEAAAAJ&hl=en. His work has also been read/downloaded over 125,000 times at Researchgate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahfooz_Ansari?ev=prf_highl.

 

Dr. Ansari teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, organizational behavior, cross-cultural management, and advanced statistical techniques. He has supervised approximately 25 doctoral dissertations (leading to PhD/DBA degrees) and about 60 master’s theses (MBA/MSc), and he regularly conducts consulting and executive training programs for multinational corporations and government organizations.

 

Dr. Ansari earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology, specializing in industrial and organizational psychology, from the University of Kansas and Patna University, respectively.